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July 1, 2021, Paper: "We document the origins of Australia's egalitarianism by quantifying both the level and trends of earnings inequality during 1870–1910 by constructing social…
An Economic Rationale for the West African Scramble? The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1835-1885. Jeffrey Williamson, March 23, 2020, Paper, "We use a new…
Living costs and living standards: Australian development 1820–1870. , October 29, 2018, Paper, "This paper contributes to the New World living standard leadership debate by…
March 2018, Paper: "We use a new trade dataset showing that nineteenth century Sub-Saharan Africa experienced a terms of trade boom comparable to other parts of the ‘global…
The Social Implications of Sugar: Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774. Jeffery Williamson, October 2017, Paper, "This paper provides the first quantitative…
Australian Squatters, Convicts, and Capitalists: Dividing Up a Fast-Growing Frontier Pie 1821-1871. Jeffrey Williamson, April 2017, Paper, "Compared with its nineteenth century…
The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871. Jeffrey Williamson, 2017, Book, "Explores the nineteenth- and twentieth-century spread of modern industry to the…
The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871. Jeffrey Williamson, 2017, Paper, "Ever since the Industrial Revolution of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth…
Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700. Jeffrey Williamson, April 2016, Book. "Adopting a new approach to historical data, Peter H Lindert and Jeffrey G…
An Economic Rationale for the African Scramble: The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1845-1885. Jeffrey Williamson, May 2015, Paper. "This is the first…